The "Not So Pro" discussion thread...of course Pros are welcome!

[procarbine2k1]

that stick been barked down low at some point? will you butt that off or let the buyer do what he wants with it?

I can't tell, cut that for someone that is going to process it himself. He makes furniture, and wanted to have it sawed and then stacked at his shop.
Kind of a weird deal, the guy I cut it for had it gifted to him from the landowner, she wanted it down.. Said it was too close to the house.

 

[Metals406]

Losing Ron to cancer this year, and not getting more time with him -- really hit me.

I want to start to experience life again, instead of living through it.

 

[treeslayer2003]

i just decided i would suit myself. i'd like to go a few places but i can't pay the price or be gone right now.........to many are looking to me.
i'm sorry about your friend Nate. if we live, we will go to many funerals.

 

[Metals406]

i just decided i would suit myself. i'd like to go a few places but i can't pay the price or be gone right now.........to many are looking to me.
i'm sorry about your friend Nate. if we live, we will go to many funerals.

Yes sir!

 

[northmanlogging]

i just decided i would suit myself. i'd like to go a few places but i can't pay the price or be gone right now.........to many are looking to me.
i'm sorry about your friend Nate. if we live, we will go to many funerals.

I never expected to live as long as I have, so every funeral is a bit of a shock to me. Thought I'd be gone before any of the rest of em.

 

[treeslayer2003]

granted, some of my friends are old......70+ but these funerals are beginning to get me down a bit.

 

[Skeans]

Colton, i have three cable skidders i am one of the last hand fallers around.........i get alot of these cable jobs. the poplar here is no problem, but if there is ash it will be so far down they don't want to cut it at all.

i remember a dollar and more for ash whole tree to the first knot.

Mike have you guys ever looked into a track skidder?

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[treeslayer2003]

its been tried here, don't work very well. would not help any way, i could cable any tree they will let me cut, they just won't allow those to be cut. how ever its ok if it dies and falls in the water......then its for animals lol.

 

[Skeans]

its been tried here, don't work very well. would not help any way, i could cable any tree they will let me cut, they just won't allow those to be cut. how ever its ok if it dies and falls in the water......then its for animals lol.

A lot safer on steeper and side hilling, didn't know if there was many of the high drive 517's or 527's out there.

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[treeslayer2003]

no sir, a couple i think but they don't use them in the winter. they will sink lol. same with forwarders, just don't work here. its really pretty flat here, i just wind up cutting gullys and ravines as getting in big timber here means going where others would or could not.

 

[northmanlogging]

Them FMC tracked skidders are supposed to be skookum on soft/wet or steep ground, but they are kind of spendy used, and I hear a pain to maintain, but they will go anywhere in a hurry.

 

[treeslayer2003]

yeah, a guy bought one those here a while back.......some thing happened to one side drive and i herd it weren't worth fixing. i guess parts are high.

 

[dooby]

FMC is now KMC. Bogie tank suspension. Faster than a skidder and will go were a crawler cant. Yearly upkeep costs are big and bigger if ya skip out on daily maintenance. Ran a winch line for several months and a swinger. They both have there upsides but for the $ a Cat 517 wide track swinger would be my choice for our applications. And way cheaper to operate.

 

[northmanlogging]

i keep tossing around the idea of getting a dozer, just can't justify the cost or maintenance for one, tracks is spensive.

And really an excavator would be way more versitile

 

[Skeans]

i keep tossing around the idea of getting a dozer, just can't justify the cost or maintenance for one, tracks is spensive.

And really an excavator would be way more versitile

Our 4 is what we placed our 440C with the long frame grapple with best thing we ever did. We've done two undercarriages on it in well over 10k on it last complete without pads was 7k shipped, what are the price of new skidder tires anymore?

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[bitzer]

2-3 grand for a new 23.1x26

 

[nk14zp]

Seems like most of it is sold for furniture or cabinets ,i use it for firewood though .

You also crush rust free cars and trucks Satan.

 

[dooby]

its been tried here, don't work very well. would not help any way, i could cable any tree they will let me cut, they just won't allow those to be cut. how ever its ok if it dies and falls in the water......then its for animals lol.

2-3 grand for a new 23.1x26

no ply intended.

 

[northmanlogging]

18.4x26 go from 800 to 1800 a peice, depending on where you get them.

 

[dooby]

18.4x26 go from 800 to 1800 a peice, depending on where you get them.

i need 4 23.1 x 26's for our yarder. At least 14 ply rating. wouldnt care if they were used as long as they were 50% or better and not all weathered out.